The Contemporary Tea House

The tea house is one of Japan’s most original and significant architectural forms—a small, simple space for the tea ceremony that traditionally requires a hearth, straw-mat flooring and a low entrance. Modern Japanese architects have found the challenge of redefining this highly formalized and constrained idiom almost impossible to resist. The Contemporary Tea House features twenty works that reveal the way world-renowned Japanese architects approach …

Cool Hunting Video Presents: Matthew Dear: Nugroove vol. 8

For the either installment of our Nugroove series, we go to Michigan and check in with electronic musician Matthew Dear before his first-even live show

M ss ng p eces recently traveled to Michigan to spend a few days with Texas-born musician Matthew Dear (aka Audion) before his first-ever live band performance. In between rehearsals for the show, we stroll down train tracks and do a little fishing as he shares insight into his music making process and the current culture of electronic music. His new album Asa Breed is …

Dustin Lynn

When not traveling to far-flung places to shoot the documentaries he's reknowned for, film maker Dustin Lynn calls NYC home. He's acclaimed for his cinematography and art direction work with musician Jack Johnson, as well as for his beautiful short films, such as "Tranquil Music," about the summery musical vibe in a pre 9/11 NYC, "The Half Way Tree," a tale of Jamaican surfing made …